8 ideas
| 291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
| 19048 | Contextual definition shifted the emphasis from words to whole sentences [Quine] |
| 19047 | Bentham's contextual definitions preserved terms after their denotation became doubtful [Quine] |
| 19049 | In scientific theories sentences are too brief to be independent vehicles of empirical meaning [Quine] |
| 19046 | Empiricism improvements: words for ideas, then sentences, then systems, then no analytic, then naturalism [Quine] |
| 6901 | Understanding is needed for imagination, just as much as the other way around [Betteridge] |
| 19050 | Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine] |
| 293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |